Senior Trader

District Partners has been engaged by a renowned RIA firm to look for a Senior Trader in Investment Operations. This role will be responsible for trade execution, reconciliations, and trade support to advisors/portfolio managers and other operations team initiatives. 

The role provides both strategic and tactical perspectives to ensure the Investment Operations team efficiently meets the trading needs of the firm. Relationship manager and primary point of contact to service providers whose applications serve critical functions to support the investment process needs of the entire firm. In addition, the Senior Trader partners with the other Senior Traders and the Trading Team Manager on a varied and diverse set of tasks for both short and long-term goals.

What You'll be Owning:

• Execute, allocate, and reconcile trades in a timely manner
• Maintain and rebalance portfolios across different strategies
• Work with firm portfolio managers to implement model changes and manage cash needs for strategy accounts
• Support trading requests from advisors and portfolio managers
• Update and maintain reports daily, weekly, and monthly to monitor model and strategy accounts
• Liaise with operations team members to resolve any critical/complex problems related to specific trading transactions or processes
• Ensure trade workflow is operating with efficiency, quality, and accuracy
• Deal with complex issues utilizing appropriate channels and resources
• Support service requests ensuring compliance and risk mitigation practices are followed
• Identify, communicate, and monitor discrepancies and workflow issues between the custodian, trading platform, and accounting system.
• Under limited supervision, assumes autonomy and independent decision authority for administering moderately complex trading and operations tasks

What You'll Bring to the Table:

• B.A. or B.S. degree, in Finance, Accounting, or related field
• Minimum 5 years of experience in trade desk and securities operations 
• Demonstrated knowledge of trade executions
• Demonstrated proficiency with portfolio accounting and trading systems is preferred: Tamarac, FIX Flyer Co-Pilot 
• Experience in general business applications: Salesforce, Excel, Word, SharePoint
• Demonstrated proficiency with general business applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, Adobe)

Competencies:

• Team player with the ability to multi-task, work under pressure and resolve problems and conflicts
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills; organized, detail-oriented
• Able to meet deadlines, while still maintaining flexibility to prioritize and execute to meet client and firm needs and support peak volumes
• Strong systems knowledge and technology skills; ability to learn other financial software tools and stay abreast of software updates 
• Keen interest in and knowledge of the markets
• Committed to promoting best practices in the application of policies, procedures and elements of governance affecting operational risk through the firm
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills with a demonstrated commitment to teamwork and partnerships
• Risk management focused
• Maintains absolute confidentiality of all client information and safeguards client and firm data; maintains high ethical standard in all practices
• Professional and positive demeanor, superb work ethic, high level of personal ethics and integrity